“Cigars, of course, are made of trail mix, of crushed cashews and Granola and raisins, soaked in maple syrup and dried in the sun. Why not eat one tonight at bedtime?”
“What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
“...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.”
“Karo sugar syrup mixed with a red dye”
“It looked like pieces of bread pudding that had been soaked in raspberry syrup.”
“..his tone, like warm maple syrup, drizzled down her spine and licked all the way back up.”